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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JUNE 23, 1859.
N0.26.
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AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.
II.
Ebtes on Kansas.
Lawrence, Kansas, May 20, 1559.
It resumed raining in Kansas, after a
few dry days, on Thursday the l'ith inst,
and rained "off and on" till Saturday
night. Sunday the 15th was cloudy and
chilly,but without rain, uutil evening vheu
thunderhowcrs came up from every side,
nnd kept flashing and rumbling aud pour
ing nearly throughout the night. Knn
fcas brags on its thunder and lightning;
and the boast is well founded. I never
before observed a display of celestial py
rotcchny so protracted, inccs.-ant aud viv
id as that of lat Sunday night. The
country, already saturated with water,
was fairly dreucLed by this doluge which
rendered many Mreams ordinarily in.ig
tiificant cither dangerous or lor a season
impassable.
At G a. m. on Monday morning, four
of us left AtchitiFon in a two hor.-e wagon,
intent on reaching Osawatamie (some
eighty miles rather east of south one
hundred by any practicable route) next
evening. The -ky was still treatening;
we knew that the streams were swelled
Ix'ond reason; but our pilot was a most
experienced pioneer, who had forded, been
ferried over or swam, every stream in
Kastern Kansas', and was confident of his
ability to go through by some route or
other. So we went ahead in a southerly
direction, across swells of prairie rather
steep-sided for Kansas, aud through ra
vines in which what were usually rills
were swelled" into torrents. From the
high level of the prairies little but a broad
bweep of grass on every side was visible;
but soon we were descending into a new
ravine, and. now belts and spurs of timber
were scon, generally widening as they de
scend. I noted that these woody spurs,
composed mainly of Black Oak and Cot
tonwood (the latter a very poor but quick
growing timber, ranging somewhere be
tween Poplar and Basswood), began to
cxtcud on every side wherever the an
nual fires were repelled from the adja
cent prairie, whether by the mterposi-
tion of a road or otherwise, and
that
the young
trees that thus
spring
up
aioug iue hucs oi me ravines anu run
out into the level prairie, are quite often
Hickory, White Ash, &c, even where
none such are visible among the adjacent
timber. I was fully conduced that wood
grows more abundant with the progress
of settlement and cultivation. Of course
there is timber enough to-day in the Ter
ritory; but the better portion of it is too
generally confined to the intervales of the
larger ttreatn-, too far for their comfort
from most settlers on the prairies. Could
prairie fires be wholly arrested, the in
crease of timber would ovebalauce tenfold
the aunual rise and waste; and the quali
ty, improves even faster than the quantity.
This is a real progress. For, though
there is quite enough iu tho Territory,
and a pretty good variety of all species
except the evcrgreeus, which aro lament
ably deficicut, there are poiuts at which
nouc is withiu two or three miles the
little that formerly ran up the sjnall ra
vines which cut iu upou the great high
prairies being soon exhausted by use for
building, fuel and fcucing, and requiring
years for its reproduction.
Twelve or fifteen miles south of Atchi
son, we btruck the great California trail
from Leavenworth, and theuoe followed
it cast by south into that city, some fif
teen to eighteen miles. I should havo
liked Gcrrit Smith as one of our party,
that I might show him the practical work
ing of his theory that Government has no
other legitimate business than to keep one
man's fingers off another oiau's throat and
out of any pocket but his own. The
great California trail, like the Sante Fe
and all other primitive roads through this
prairie couutry, keeps along tho highest
"divides" or prairie swells, avoiding the
miry "bottoms" of the streams and (ho
for as possible) the ravines which the wa
ter falling ou the high prairie has cut
down to them, of course winding consid
erably, but making the best and most ser
viceable natural road that can be, and
one that in dry weather is excellent aud
in wet as good as is possible. But each
settler along" this trail, in the absence of
any legal establishment of the trail as a
highway, is at liberty to run his fences
right across it as tho line of his land runs
and so crowd it off the high "divides" in
to all manner of angles and zigzags, a
cross this ravine and into that slough, un
til the trail is fast becoming the very
worst road in all Kansas. I havo bad a
pretly full experience of bad roads during
t .1 i r.i i
this week; but the very worst and miriest
was that portion of the California trail(and
United States military road from Fort
Leavenworth weft to other Forts) which
works its sinuous way through the region
generally settled by thrifty farmers, ly-
ing airociiv west 01 xjoavenwortn. tna
trie worst hill lor teams I nave seen in
Kamas is traversed by this road within
five miles of Leavenworth, between tho
Fort and the rioh but miry valley of Salt
Creek on the west. This road, unless it
can be restored, will soon have to be a
bandoned, and thonccLeavenworth must
suffer.
As wo ncared the California trail, the
. rt
white coverings of the many emigrant and
transport wagons dotted the landscape,
giving the trail the appearanoo of a river
running through great meadows, with
mauy tnips sailing on us oosom. -most
of the independent wagoners were still
enoaraped by the wayside, unable or un
willing to brave the deep mud; their cat-
tie feeding on the broad pruine; the em- ly growing in these bottoms, and should ( houses, including a store and a tavern),
igrants cooking or sitting beside the wag-' stand thero as trees till they are wanted, so as to cross at Hock Ford, three
on; women sometimes washing, and all When cleared and drained and in some ( miles beyond, which opened the only
trjing to dry their clothing, drenched and places the rotting out of the stumps and chance of getting over. We did so,
soaked by the pouring rain of the past thorough plowing thereafter will go far J and crossed in safety, with tho usual
night. One great wagon-train was still in ' toward effecting the drainage required jokes when we were fairly over; but I
corral with its cattle feeding and ineu they will yield bounteous crops of almost, confess that the wide impetuoas stream,
lounging about; the others might better auything that does not dread frost. J so impenetrable to the eye and so far a
h;ive been, as it was clearly impossible J Though it seems hardly possible that their . bove its average level, wore a vicious
to mako their lean, wild-looking oxen soil should be richer than that of the prai-1 look to me when we approached and
(mainly of the loug-horned btripe, which , ries, it is deeper, and probably contains a : plunged into it. Its bottom is here hardly
indicates Texas as their native land, and j more varied and choice admixture of.the'half a milo wide, but is capitally wooded
which had probably first felt the yoke elemeuts of vegetation. But the Kansas ' with Hickory, Oak, Black Walnut, &c.
within the past week) draw them up the or Kaw bottom was not only soaked butEmerging from it, we rode twelve miles
slightest ascent through that deep, slip- ' covered with water for it had rained 'more of high, gently rolling prairie.
pery mire. A great
deal of yelling, beat-
iing expended to lit- !
ing, swearing, was being expen
t
tic purpose, as I presume each train cor-
raieu
? frtr flirt trwnintr
Ill;lit
withiu a mile
n' rhn nnu.f if. I.rr in Mr ninrnin.,
Theso
contractors wagons arc very large and
strong, each carrying a couple of good
extra axles lashed uudcr its body to bo
used in case an obi one gave way under
a heavy jerk ; the drivers are as rough,
wild-looking as their team?, though uot
so awkward at their busine-s; but to keep j
sis yoke of such oxen in line in the road, ;
and all pulling on the load, is beyond hu
man skill. It is a sore trial to patience,
that fir.-t start of these trains on thcr long
- -j
journey to UtBh, Fort Hall, Green Hiv-
cr, and some of these to New Mexico,
though this is not the Santa Fe trail. The
loads are generally fifty hundred weight;
the wagous mut weigh at least fifteen
hundred each: and. though this would
seem moderate for twelve oxen, it must : ford difficult, even when it is not dan
be remembered that they are at this sea- ! gerous.
son poor and at first unbroken, and that j The Kaw was, of course, nearly full
the road is in spots a very bad one. A ' (all tho riverB of Kansas have low bank'),
train consists of ten to twenty wagons; ! and was running very swiftly; still, it
each train has its reliable and experien- j seems of moderate size for over J300 miles
ced master or director; and, when a team ; longrbut all the rivers of this region, the
is stalled, auother is unhitched from its Missouri included, seem small, cousider
own wagon and sent to the aid of the one ing the area drained by them. The facts
in trouble. The rate of progress is of that they run rapidly, are apt to be deep.
course snail-like: these train will do well
if they make twenty miles the first week,
considering the weather. But then the
feed, of the teams (like the lodgings of the
men) costs nothing, as they live ou the
broad prairie, and though they will be of-
ten fearfully hungry or dry in traversing
grasslcss tracks on their route, they are
said generally to-gain in flesh (for which
there is ample room) during a journey of
three or four months. Of course they
improve in docility and effectiveness, be-
ing at first so wild that, in order to be
yoked, they have to be driven into tho
corral, (formed, as I may have explained,
by the wagon closely ranged in hollow
square, the tongue oi each
. , n f
being ruii uo-
dor its next neighbor, for defence against
Iudians or other prowlers.) Very few
wagons or cattle ever como back; tho
freighting is all oue way, and both wag
ons aud cattle arc usually sold at or near
their point of destination for whatever
they will fetch to be taken to Califor
nia or disposed of as they best may.
We drove into Leavenworth City a
bout 11a. m., and found that the dele
gates from this county had generally giv
en up the idea of reaching Osawatamie,
judging that the Convention would have
to be adjourned or postponed ou account
of the swollen streams being impassable.
Stranger Creek barred all egress by way
of Lawrence, which we bad intended to
make our resting place for the night; a
creek 9 miles south of Leavenworth had
turned back the stage running in that di
rection; in fact, no stage made its way out
of Leavenworth that day iu any direction
which was not forced to return baffled by
the hi-rh water. So at 3 p. m. we shipped
our horses and wagonson board the steam
boat I). A. January, and dropped down
the Missouri some 50 miles, past the
bleaching bones of several dead cities
(not including Quiudaro, which insists
that it is still alive) to Wyandot, in the
lower corner of Kansas, with Kansas City,
Missouri, three miles off, in plain sight
across the mouth of tho Kansas or Kaw
River. Wyandot, though hemmed in and
impeded, like Quindaro, by an Indian
reserve back of it, is alive, aud is becom
ing, what it ought fully to bo, the outlet
and inlet between Southern Kansas and
the Missouri River. It has a beautiful
location, and decided natural advantages
oter Kansas Citv. which, with other Bor-
der Ruffian strongholds south of it, has
hitherto engrossed too much of tho frav-
el aud trade of Kausas. We halted at ly a limestone bottom not far below the at Usawntamio, was to Jive ju uightly and
Wyandot over night, had an impromptu ' surface of their bed; but their banks are well-grounded apprehension of robery,
Republican gathering and homes, off-band ' apt to be steep, and are continually gfow- aron and murder. The Pro-Slavery set
talk in tho evening,- and Bet forth at 6 ing more so by reason of the water wash- tlemcuts iu the neighborhood were strong
next morning for Osawatamie (46 miles a j ing away tho earth whioh has been denu- aud malignant; aud tbey had only to
little wost of south by a bco line, butroyer 'ded of grass and worked loose by hoofs draw upon Missouri at eight for any n-
' 50 by any practicable route), which we'
' were desirous of reaching before night,
; as the Convention was to bo held
, day.
next
,' Our route led southwest over rolling
woodland through the Wyandot Reserve,
ue&cenaing into mu uouuuj 01 iuu nuu-
sas or Kaw luver said bottom being eluding a store, but no tavern. Our hor
from one to two miles wide, and very ses needed to feed and rest for the wag-
heavily timbered with lilm, leuow Uak,
Black Walnut, Hickory, Cottonwood,
Sycamore, Basswood, &c. Nearly all of (
tho rivers and larger creeks of Kansas
run through similar bottoms or intervales,
, from half a mile to three miles wide, and ,
timbered much like this. These inter-j
vales are composed of a dark, rich mold,
oftner over than under three feet in depth,
but they are so level that they could hard-
ly bo cultivated without drainage even
were it auvisaoie io strip mem uy wuoie-
were it auviaauic to atrip tuem ujr wuuio-
sale of timber, as it decidedly is not.
The houses and barns that shall yet thick-
ly dot the adjacent prairies are now main-
here smartly only the preceding morning
after it had ceased at Atchison, and the
; bottom was for the time an all butimpass
J able morass. I trust tho citizens of Wy
' andot will not long leave it thus.
I We crossed the Kaw on a fair wooden
toll bridge, 1,200 feet long, iust erected
or, rather, not quite completed. In
default of a toll-house or gate-keeper, a
man at work on the bridge took the toll i to forego our determination to reach Osa
in his shirt-sleeves. I believe no other ' watatuio before sleeping. So we baited
bridge across the Kaw is now standing,
though there has been one at Topeka 50
miles
up,
and perhaps at other points.
mioses
sorely needed throughout
Tvnnsns. not, nnlv hnnntisn f.lin strffimn nri
i , j j
addicted to rapid and vast augmentations!
'from thaws or rains, but because their meeting aud a Republican talk at the
' bauks are almost perpendicular, and oft-! school house, and adjourned to fill all
jen miry toward the bottom, while tbejlhc beds and. floors of the tavern as full
i streams are nearly as deep at cither shore as they could bold. The kind, active,
! as in the middle, making the attempt totefficient landlady did her best, which was
anu tnat their depth is nearly unitorm
from side to side, account for this ap
, penrance.
j LTalf an hour after crossing the river,
' we emerged from the road and the He-
serve upon the high prairie, the clouds of
the morning broke away, and tho day
was henceforth perfect. Tho young grass
of the prairie, refreshed by tho heavy
rains, appeared in its freshet, tenderest
green; the delicate early flowers were a-
buudaut, yet uot so numerous as to sati-
ate the pleasuro of looking at them, and
the panorama presented was magnificent.
Passing Shawnee, a prairie village of
twenty or thirty houses with a large bo-
tel, our road bore more directly south,
and soon brought us in sight of the great
Santa Fc trail, with its white-topped em-
lgrant
wagons, and threo great trains of
contractor's wagons, one of them still in
the corral, the others with six
pair ot
n 1
mules to each
wagon, attempting to make
rd New-Mexico attomnt-
progress toward New-Mexico
attempt-
ing it for the most part in vain.
Tbo
mules were small, and new to work to , watered bottom brought us again to prai
this work, at all events and drew badly; i ri0 0ycr which we drove rapidly into Os-
whilc the Wheels cut so deeply into the
yielding paste beneath them that little or
.
no advance was made. I presume they
all corraled for the night within two
miles of the places where we saw them.
Crossing the trail almost at right an
gles, we left the smart village of Olathe
(county seat of Johuson County) a milo or
so to the west, aud struck off nearly due
south, over high prairies sloped as gently
and grassed as richly as could be desired,
with timber vissiblo along tho water -
courses on either hand. Yet there was
little or no settlement below Olathe for
,i ai . -i ii i i i
the next twenty miles that wo traveled
,. i il i
there was hardly an improvement to each
four squaro miles of the country in sight.
And yet if the Garden of Eden exceeded 1 somewhere iu what is kuown as Southern
this land in beauty or fertility, I pity ; Kansas, though I do not know which it
Adam for having to leave it. The earth 'is.
warthoroughly soddeu with rain, eo that. But Osawatamie has a higher interest
temporary hprings were bursting out on than any other spot in Kansas, except
almost every acre, while the water-cours-! possibly Lawrence, because of her honor
ed, including those usually dry, rau hca-Joblo eminence in the btrugglc which has
vy stream, each of them requiring skill secured Kansas to Free Labor. She was
in the charioteer nnd good conduct on the
part of tho horses to pass them without
balk or break. Wo must have crossed
ncor n iiiinrit-prl nf Mins.i 'runs'' in Min
! course of this day'b travel, eaoh of them)
- -
with a trying lerk on the. carriage, and
) generally with a spring on the part of the
! horses. Theso water-ways havo general -
and wheels. Traveling by jerks like this
is not so pleasaut as over a macadamized
road, yet our day was a bright and pleas
ant oue.
Thirty miles of progress, twenty of
, them over prairie, brought us to Spring
uui, a uamiet 01 nve or six uweuings, in-
on with its lour
its lour inmates was a heavy
1 drag over such going so we stopped and
tried to find refreshment, but with limit-
ed success. There was no grain to soil,
save a homeopathio dose eold us for a
.... , .
quarter by a pissing wagoner, and thauk-
fully received; we gave this to our steeds,
regaled ourselves on crackers and her-
ring, and pushed on.
Our direct route led south to Paoli,
county seat of Lykins; but persons we met
j uuic usauruu us mat mere was no, cross-
,ing Bull Creek on this road, and that we
J must bear away to tho west through Ma-
acre assurea us mat there was no, cross-
rysville (a village of perhaps a dozen
with wood in the ravines on either side,
which brought us to tho village of Stan
ton (of twonty or thirty bouses, including
two stores and a tavern) which we reach
ed beforo sunset, having travelled at least
fifty miles since wc started in the morn
ing. Night and the Marias des Cygnes
' here brought us to a halt the creek be-
ing at this time impassable and wc had
at the little tavern, where we found five
or t-ix others bound to O.-awatamie like
ourselves, at least one of whom had swam
three creeks since tho morning. Fifteen
or tvrfintv nthrs drnvr lin iliirinrr Mm
j r o
veiling; we had supper, a neighborhood
e-
good enough; and all were snugly bestow
ed except another editor and myself, who
accepted the kiudly proffered hospitality
of a Republican farmer, and were capi
tally entertained at his house, half a mile
distant.
Ab night fell, the lightning had begun
to gleam and flash nearly around the ho
rizon; by 10 o'clock, the thunder rolled;
at 12, a high gale could bo heard sweep
ing over
the prairie some moments be
fore it struck us. Tho lightuing blazed
almost incessantly for hours; yet the rain
fall at Stanton was very slight. But
there were heavy showers at Marysville,
at Paoli, and almost everywhere elhe a
round us, still further raising the streams
so that many who had como part way
were unable to reach Gsawatamic next
day.
We were early on the bank (a mile
from Stanton) of the Marias des Cygnes,
which was running heavy driftwood and
othcrwiso misbehaving itself. It had bu
ried up the ferry rope, without whose aid
the boat could not be propelled across its
sweeping current; one of the trees to
which that rope was attached was now
nearly in tho middle of the stream; and
there had been no crossing for a day or
two. But a new rope had been procured
t aDrJ somehow stretched across the stream:
whereby wc were taken acrosi in our turn
i f
after waiting somewhat over an hour. A
mile or so of well timbered and too well
nwntnmin. which werftachod bnforG 10 A.
, . . . - -1 -
M.
Osawatamie is a village of at most 150
houses, situated in the forks of the Mara
is des Uygnes anu rotawatamie, a some
what smaller creek, which comes iu from
the south-west. The location is a pleas
ant and favorable but not a commanding
one; tho surrounding couutry is more con
i siderably cultivated than any I had pa;-s-
any jl nau pa!-s-
ed south of the Kaw. Tho two creeks
' supply abuudaut and good timber; an ex-
celleut steam sawmill has taken the place
of that which the Border Ruffians burned;
' n -ti i j
, a flouring mill, tannery, brewery and a
i iii i e i i
large bote , are being erected or complo-
; ted. I presume there is a larger town
long tho only settlement near tho Missou-
ri border which was avowedly, decidely,
Freo State; tho only Free-Slate village
Mini fr,M l.n ronnlmil xr n nii-hfH march
vwu.x. ft :
from Missouri. To be kuown as a Lreo -
Stato man at Toneka. WauuonsQc. lUm-
poria, or any other post well inland, in-
; volveu struggles and sacrifices; to ue oue
force, and the draft would be
Yet to 6urrender this outpost
j was virtually to give up all K
j bf the Marais des Cygues; and
ansas soDth
and though its
maintenance was sure
and blood, it was not
Old John Brown was
settlers. Twice was it
to cost property
surrendered, for
among its early :
sacked and laid
in ashes, once after a desporato fight of
two hours, in which Old Brown with for-!
ty of his neighbors held nf. bar four hnn.'
dred well-armed Missourians; who had I
the advantage of a cannon. So fearfullv
" . . . - J ,
outnumbered, Old Brown, after
seeing
, his son and several of his neighbors shot1
' dead by his side, aud after killing at least
as many Missourians as there were of bis
own party altogether, was
gradually
driven back through tho open timber
north of the village and across the Mara-
is ues uygnes, me vumaii3 not venturing
to pursue their victory, though they had .
attacked from tho west, and so were driv-
is des Cygnes, the IlufEaii3 not venturing
ing the Free-State men toward
Missouri.
The women and children had mean-
mount of
honored.
time fled to the woods on the southj the termine whether wheat and rye are iri
village was burned after being robbed, jured."
the only iron safe therein having been; Jackson C. IL, O. "Fears are enter
blown open by firing a cannon into its taincd that wheat is nearly or quite ruin
side, and so plundered of some silverware 1 cd.
and a considerable
sum in money. LMa-1
watomie was thus a second time 'wiped, "All vegetation except wheat is killed,
out.' But it has risen 'again from its That, except in low lauds, it is thought wiU
ashes, and is once more the home of an' not be injured."
undaunted, freedom-loving people, who I Can field Mahoning County, Ohio.
are striving to forget their bereavements "Wheat, it is feared, is seriously injured,
and sacrifices in view of the rich fruits ! though it is impossible to say now tc
they have borne to Liberty and Human wbat extent."
Good. They have gathered the dust of j Lodi, Medina County , Ohio. "Every
their martyred dead into a coms-on grave stalk of corn is killed, but we still hope,
on a prairie knoll just west of their vil- the wheat is uninjured. I have examined
lage, and propose to erect there a moment' several fields, and think that, except
which shall teach their children and I upon low lands, tho crop is safe. We
grandchildren to love and cherish the here intend to look the calamity square'
cause for which those herocH joyfully laid in tho face, and, if energy and pcrsever
down their lives. I beg leave to suggest , ancc are rewarded, you will yet chronicle'
an enlargement of the scopo of this enter- a good corn and wheat crop in Ohio, this"
prise that this monument be reared to year."
the martyrs of Freedom in Kansas, and! Pittsburg, Pa. "The wheat we believe
that tho name of each be inscribed upon it, ! to be but slightly injured, and rye not at
and his mortal remains, if his relatives j all.
make no objection, be placed beneath the i Champaign County, 111. "The Winter
column which shall here be reared as a ' wheat in bloom must be more or less in
memorial of the struggle vhich secured 'jured."
Kansas to Free Labor, and is destined! -Indianapolis, 2nd. "The wheat crop'
finally to hasten the expulsion of Slavery
from Missouri. Should a
proposed on this basis, I feel confident!
that subscriptions in aid of its erection
might reasonably be asked of all who
prefer Freedom to Slavery, and would
not be asked in vain.
HORACE GREELLY.
Prom the New York Tribune.
The Frost and its Effects.
Wo have printed a great mass of infor
mation about the June frost, and have
now lying beforo us a vast number of
letters upon the same subject which wc
have no room for, but from all of which
we propose to sum up and condense the
information received.
As a matter of eoursc, almost the first
information of such a great calamnity is
always the worst. One says: "The
wheat is entirely ruined." But this is
true to a very limited extent, as we be
lieve, because tho wheat must be in a
certain condition of growth to be affected
disadvantageously by frost; and in the an injury as now, and yet fair crops were"
whole vast region overspread by the late Jmade in spite of cold and killing frosts',
visitation, we do not supposo that one The late frost has undoubtedly done a
field in fifty is in that particular state. 'great deal of damage, but the loss is
Upon the whole we doubt whether the j greater in labor than in the yield of
general average of the wheat crop will be grain. A vast amount of labor to get in
materially diminished. When the berry! Spring crops has been done moro than
j in one field is killed, it is an even chance
that the yield of tho next Geld will be im- be done over. The wheat, rye and oats,
proved. Frot is as destructive to insect1 though injured, are not destroyed. The
enemies of wheat, as to the grain. Mor- jloss is but partial falling here and there"
over, owing to the very warm weather in ! upon individuals rather than upon States
May, the straw had attained such a rank 'or wholo counties. Where the wheat i
growth that there was serious reason to , actually killed, plow at onco and sow
fear a loss of the crop by rust, and iu all , buckwheat, rutabagas, turnips, peas or
cases where it was not forward enough ' beans. Don't let the ground lie idle and'
to be injured by frost, we have no doubt; run to weeds.
that tho check given to tho growth will 1 Com in Central and Northern New
prove beneficial. j York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illiuols aud
it is also true that the southern part of! Iowa, is cut down, but unless it was ve
tho belt of the frcst-smitleu country has a ry forward, it will come up again. Don'tf
great portion of its wheat so far advanced , plow it up till you are sure it is past re
that frost would not injure it, while on tho covery, aud then put in some other crop'
northern limit it was still too backward in its place, or in place of the portion tBa'2
to be endangered. Iu looking over our i is killed.
reports of tho frost, we do not find that Potato vines aro killed, and in soma
Mm writnr.i of letters think the wheat kill-1 cases past redemption, while in otberV
i - "
ca even wuero corn potatoes, lumaiu
melon, grapes, aud sometimes apples
were "all turnea niacu. jjcsiucs, wutuuu give u u l.ujj mu uiu migui u
must remember that even before the news , rot? As for the loss of garden vegcta-
of the froat had reached and irightcned
; ol lut 11001 uau ' , .
sonip of tho neon e of this city almost to
i b0Ulc ol 11,0 PLOI"- Ul m,a """y 4
nf il.n fm.t hnfl ronchp.d and friL'btcned
the starvation poiut. wo had samples of
wheat in hand from Georgia aud Tonnes -
see. where a good crop had been reaped
aud was ready to bo thrashed ana tent
hither should a pauio advance the prico
to any considerable extent.
One man writes: "The frost was so
severe that oak leaves aro killed, and
the trees look as though they hud been!
burned. Of course the wheat is all kill- i
I ed." No, friend; it is by no means a
, matter of course
, About tell VCarS &20. OU tUO ltll OI
i " . . . " : ...
1 April, the snow fell nearly all day at au.
gusta, ua., ana it was ireciug uoiu
night. Oak trees was so affected that
the teavos not oniy mruuu mum, i"
bark of youu" trees peeled off as though
it had been exposed to a seorojuug firo. was exhibited which had on it the wordsr
I The wheat then was as forward as it was! "Congress water," ouo asked tho otker
iti tho region affected by tho great Juno' what sort of water that was. "Why, you
frost. A ftiw fields were undoubtedly iu- fool replied bis companion, nthatrffTtkf
1 juied, but tho crop was not destroyed, hhcj spout at Congvess."
j Neither is it now destroyed in the
North. Without some oher a'nd creator
calamity befalling the farmer, we shall
till hope for a good wheat crop in New
Yorlc, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, 111
inois, &c.
As injury to wheat is nearly irrepara-
tle, we quote opiuions from some of oujr
latest letters for what thoy may be worth'.
Java, Wyoming Co., N. Y. ''Winter
wheat, we fear, is all snnilnn "
Pleasant Plains, Duchess Co., IV. Y".-
"The frost did verv little dama hpi-P
. . - ts-
to wheat and rye none.
Hamburg, Zatcrencc Co., Pa "It is'
prosumcd that
nine-tenths of the winter
county is killed. Tho'
grain in this
fields
show unmistakeable signs
being
killed, and they are changing from green
to white
olaiiruucca, Waync Co. ''Tho
oiayruucca, waync uo. "lho corn
beans, potatoes, &c, are all killed', but I
don't know that winter grain is."
Mercer Pa "The Thermometer was at
28 deg. It will take a few davs to do-
J.ear cxivgion, retry uounty, Ulna.
will not be
very great, but better than'
Toronto. C. W. "The frost was so se
vere that all half hardy plants were kill
ed, yet wheat promises a magnificent
crop,
. Bourbon County, Ky. "Wheat is re
ported some what injured, butpon the
whole we do not think there is any reason'
for serious alarm."
Ford County, III. "The corn will be'
retarded not killed. Wheat is not rri-"
jurcd."
Caledonia. N. Y. "An old farmer of
! Caledonia
?ays that ihe recent frost baa
not injured
the wheat, and ho does nos
a May or June frost can in-
believe that
jure that plant, lie states that in iojo
there was a late Spring frost in his sec
tion, by which the btalks of wheat were'
actually frozen, and the yield from the'
same fields was forty bushels to the aero
of prime Genesee."
So do we remember the cold and froatV
of 1S1G, and of several other years when
1 there was as great a panic, if not as great,-
ever before, and some of this must now
i , . . . , ,
( j ... -p-s-, -
.that tho
frost will not prove a blessing,;
, L es and truit. that is more vexatious to
, n es anu iruu, inai is more vexatious iu
. .. ., , ' . . . t, ., .u.
individuals than it is sefions to the whole
community
; What u wanted uow
is "energy anu
a . - T
perscterance to put
in substitutes for"
determination t cV
crops injured, and
"look the culamity
. i
square in the facd"
aud the couutry will
the staggering blow
froaf.
soon recover from"
of the great Juno
" .
A man named Dowry for entering jr
Jom u"
. P ,,V,,n nnn , H
i. i ..;.t r i ii J .
y . J
: to tho penitcutiary fov six years. Liquor
is sacreu mere.
Aa two country lads were passing '
druggist's establishment where a sign"